Part 2: Don’t Be That Roommate (Quit Being a Stinky Mess of a Human)
It is a scientific fact that one in every four people in any living arrangement will be obnoxious. It is also probable that each roommate will gossip about that same person behind his or her back. The trick is, don’t let that person be you. Here’s a tip: if you don’t know who that person is, it’s probably you.
Try to do dishes in a timely manner, especially if you plan on using someone else’s bowls and spoons to enjoy your Ramen. What is a timely manner, you ask? It’s not a week or two. Try washing that utensil you borrowed as soon as you are done with it and no one even has to know that your parents didn’t care enough to send you off on your own without so much as one set of silverware.
Are you smelly? If the answer is anything other than a resounding “no,” then yes, you are probably a stinky person. Try doing laundry at least twice a month. Let us all accept the fact that you aren’t going to wash that towel or comforter until you go home for Christmas break. That much is a given, so don’t sweat it. Anyone who says otherwise is simply delusional. Someone should probably scrub the bathtub once in a while, but I know that doesn’t happen. You have other things to do, like watch Netflix or Twitter-stalk old high school classmates.
Inevitably, living with others leads to problems. At some point, you will walk in on something you won’t be able to unsee, be forced to listen to one end of an awkward phone conversation, and suspect that your personal items were tampered with (because they probably were). How you handle these annoyances will ultimately determine your level of sanity throughout your first year on campus. Good luck. And if you start to suspect that you are that roommate who others cannot stand, embrace it and become the most obnoxiously smelly human you can be.
Try to do dishes in a timely manner, especially if you plan on using someone else’s bowls and spoons to enjoy your Ramen. What is a timely manner, you ask? It’s not a week or two. Try washing that utensil you borrowed as soon as you are done with it and no one even has to know that your parents didn’t care enough to send you off on your own without so much as one set of silverware.
Are you smelly? If the answer is anything other than a resounding “no,” then yes, you are probably a stinky person. Try doing laundry at least twice a month. Let us all accept the fact that you aren’t going to wash that towel or comforter until you go home for Christmas break. That much is a given, so don’t sweat it. Anyone who says otherwise is simply delusional. Someone should probably scrub the bathtub once in a while, but I know that doesn’t happen. You have other things to do, like watch Netflix or Twitter-stalk old high school classmates.
Inevitably, living with others leads to problems. At some point, you will walk in on something you won’t be able to unsee, be forced to listen to one end of an awkward phone conversation, and suspect that your personal items were tampered with (because they probably were). How you handle these annoyances will ultimately determine your level of sanity throughout your first year on campus. Good luck. And if you start to suspect that you are that roommate who others cannot stand, embrace it and become the most obnoxiously smelly human you can be.